I just use QWant. Ilike it because it’s simple and I can put it on all my devices or use it on other devices. I also don’t have money to spend on something like Kagi.. And really I just hated that google gave me soo much AI generated content. It put my life in danger once because I’ve spent years being able to trust google results.
Also regarding AI stuff in thread, you can just use extensions to block AI generated results for a lot of things on different browsers.